8 Weeks (or so) To Go It's been a while, but I thought I'd better summarise a few things.

1) In about 8 weeks (maybe one or two more) our son will arrive. We're attending antenatal classes at the moment, which are going very well except for the fact that I have to keep on leaving the room owing to an inherited condition known as "being a fainter". I actually inadvertently swore at the midwife conducting the sessions when she asked me if I was OK. I felt very bad about that. We are preparing for the arrival of Mr Chocolate Milk (our current best name - hey, it beats Buscopan) by trying to fit more stuff into our tiny apartment.

2) Hong Kong is finally starting to heat up, just in time for Dragon Boat season. I am participating in the Bloomberg team, which is interesting in that most of the people in the team don't appear to work for Bloomberg. We head down to Stanley every Saturday afternoon, train for two hours, and then Bloomberg pays for about 3 hours of eating and drinking at one of the many pubs in Stanley. I think we may actually be getting slower every week. Also our trainer doesn't really seem too bothered about getting us ready for competition. He delights in pointing out other teams on water - "Those guys train three times a week, all year!" - but he couldn't really care less about our performance. I guess we're not in it to win it.

3) The band is a bit more active at the moment which is nice - we're playing a gig on Saturday night with a group from Tasmania called "The Green Mist". Should be fun.

4) Our landlady is a piece of work - she rang up today trying to get us to pay an extra HK$10 per month to cover the cost of the receiving fee her bank charges when I transfer the money into her account.

That is all.  ¶ 5:37 PM